LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Question
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Bruchac says Longfellow’s poem “Song of Hiawatha” is misnamed because
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The title tells nothing of the struggles of Native Americans
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The poet attributes his story to the wrong native group
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The was never an Iroquois named Hiawatha
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Hiawatha was a Chippewa, not an Iroquois
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: –Some aspects of the setting in this myth that are archetypes are: Fruit, Talking Animals, The Tree of Life.-Other stories that have used the same archetypes are Jack & The Bean Stalk, King Arthur, The Movie Enchanted, Mulan.
Detailed explanation-2: -What does Joseph Bruchac cite as “part of the problem” in the West’s misrepresentation of American Indian literature? The hundreds of different native languages posed a translation problem.
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